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Running
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The Electric Puppet Crossword Generator is a program for automatically
generating crossword puzzles.

For basic instructions, run the program with the --help option:
(on Linux or OS X):
  ./eptcross.py --help
(on Windows):
  python.exe eptcross.py --help

For detailed instructions and updates, visit http://eptcomic.com/eptcross.htm

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License
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The Electric Puppet Crossword Generator is free software that may be
modified and/or redistributed under the terms of the GNU General 
Public License, either version 2 of the License or (at your option)
any later version.  A copy of the license is available in the file
COPYING.txt.

In addition to the program (eptcross.py) and example grids, eptcross
is distributed with a dictionary file ("words") taken from the Debian
dictionaries-common package, which is also distributed under the
GNU General Public License.

Here are the copyright details of the dictionaries-common package
(retrieved from http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/d/dictionaries-common/current/copyright):
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dictionaries-common is a Debian native package. It contains modified
versions of ispell.el and flyspell.el,

ispell.el:
  Original author: Ken Stevens <k.stevens@ieee.org>
  Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1997-2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

  ispell.el is released under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 3,
  or at your option, any later version.

flyspell.el:
  Original author: Manuel Serrano <Manuel.Serrano@sophia.inria.fr>
  Copyright (C) 1998, 2000-2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

  flyspell.el is released under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 3,
  or at your option, any later version.

debian/patches/* for ispell.el and flyspell.el:
  Copyright (C) 2004-2009 Agustin Martin <agmartin@debian.org>
  Released under the same terms of ispell.el and flyspell.el

Other dictionaries-common stuff:
  Copyright (C) 1999-2008 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@debian.org>
  Copyright (C) 2001-2009 Agustín Martín Domingo <agmartin@debian.org>
  Copyright (C) 2003-2009 René Engelhard <rene@debian.org>

  dictionaries-common is released under the terms of the GNU GPL,
  version 2, or at your option, any later version.

A copy of the GNU General Public License, versions 2 or 3, should
be available in any recent Debian system as /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2
and /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

The sources for this package can be found on any Debian mirror.
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Contact
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Please send any questions, comments, bug reports, 
or patches to markv@eptcomic.com

--Mark V.
  7/11/2011
